A Stunning Display! A Member of the Demon Race!

The auction was in full swing.

The second and third items, all the way through the fifth, were bought by people in the audience seats. Those upstairs still made no move.

"The sixth item is a high-grade earth-rank piece of defensive equipment,"

the old man said slowly.

"The sixth item is already high-grade earth-rank?"

"Looks like the last item today will be at least low-grade Heaven Tier!"

The crowd in the audience seats grew noisy, breaking into animated discussion.

"Silence!"

The old man rapped his cane against the floor to call for quiet.

"The Benevolent King Battle Armor. The starting price is eight hundred thousand Spirit Stones, with each bid no less than ten thousand higher!"

"Nine hundred thousand."

"One million."

"Two million!"

A voice called out from a room on the second floor.

"What? Two million? Who's that?"

"Are you blind? Look, it's General Li's household from the inner city."

"The great general spends all year away defending against the Devil Race. Is it too much for him to want a piece of armor to protect himself?"

"Two million going once, two million going twice, two million going three times. Sold!"

The armor was then delivered to his room.

After another three items had been auctioned, the sale price had reached a staggering ten million, and all had been acquired by the various powers on the second floor.

At last, the auction reached its final lot, the item everyone had been looking forward to most!

"Here it comes! What treasure could have brought the imperial family out?"

"Look, the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and the Heavenly Sword Holy Land are here too!"

"Huh? No one from the Dao Heaven Holy Land?"

"They're probably too far away and didn't get word."

The audience below the stage was brimming with anticipation. They certainly couldn't outbid the others, but they could enjoy the spectacle.

This last piece of trash is actually worth so many people fighting over.

Ye Zichen thought. As far as he was concerned, it was trash anyway.

"I trust everyone here is brimming with anticipation. Now, allow me to present the final item of this auction!"

He then pulled back the red cloth and shouted excitedly, "A top-grade Heaven Tier pill! The Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pill! If taken by someone at the Peak Venerable realm, it can shatter their shackles and allow them to reach the Half-Immortal realm within a hundred years. If taken by a Half-Immortal, it offers hope of comprehending the Immortal Dao and breaking through to become an immortal!"

Becoming an immortal! Even if it wasn't guaranteed, everyone who heard those words felt their Qi and Blood surge!

It could be said that people from the four great powers would fight tooth and nail for a pill like this!

"Holy crap! Did you hear that?"

"No wonder the great powers all want it!"

"The starting price is fifty million Spirit Stones, with each bid no less than one million higher!"

"Fifty-five million!"

"Sixty million!"

"Eighty million!"

"One hundred million Spirit Stones!"

A lovely voice came from the imperial family's room on the third floor. A woman had bid one hundred million Spirit Stones.

"One hundred million and five thousand Spirit Stones. Princess Yunxi, please let the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion have it."

An old man's voice came from the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion's room.

"Two hundred million! The people from the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion aren't generous enough. For a treasure like this, the Heavenly Sword Holy Land naturally wants to compete as well. Hahahaha!"

A middle-aged man laughed in the Heavenly Sword Holy Land's room.

Both parties had heard the almost miraculous tales of the pill and had therefore been ordered to come and see it for themselves.

"Two hundred and thirty million!"

Chu Yunxi gritted her teeth and steeled herself. When her imperial father learned that the pill could help one comprehend the Immortal Dao, he had told her to come and buy it.

But people from the other two great powers were here as well, so this would probably be difficult to resolve.

"Even if it can't make someone an immortal, helping a peak Venerable break through to Half-Immortal within a hundred years makes it a divine treasure!"

Chu Yunxi murmured. A peak Venerable might spend thousands of years trying to become a Half-Immortal without success. With this single pill, they could break through within a hundred years. Its value was plain to see!

"Three hundred million Spirit Stones!"

Just then, a voice came from the audience seats, from someone who belonged to none of the three great powers.

The people around him stared at the plainly dressed, masked man.

"I never thought we'd have a hidden tycoon right here in the audience!"

The imperial family, the Heavenly Sword Holy Land, and the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion were also a little bewildered. How was someone else down there bidding...?

Three hundred million Spirit Stones was no small sum. It would be difficult for the Heavenly Sword Holy Land and the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion to keep competing. Only...

"Three hundred and thirty million Spirit Stones!"

Chu Yunxi made her bid. She hadn't brought that many Spirit Stones with her, so it looked like she would have to make up the difference with treasures from her private stash. The thought pained her.

"The Great Chu Imperial Family on the third floor has bid three hundred and thirty million Spirit Stones. Does anyone here wish to bid higher? Three hundred and thirty million Spirit Stones going once, three hundred and thirty million Spirit Stones going twice..."

Below the stage, the masked man was also in a difficult position. He had been ordered by his superiors to do his utmost to secure the pill today.

But three hundred million was all he had. He wanted to...

"Two hundred and twenty million, going thr-"

"Five hundred million Spirit Stones."

The bidder was none other than Ye Zichen, who was sitting upright with perfect composure.

"What? Five hundred million?"

"Heavens, five hundred million Spirit Stones! Even the Great Chu Imperial Dynasty wouldn't dare be so extravagant!"

Everyone turned to stare at Ye Zichen.

Seeing this, Liao Yunxiao couldn't help saying in a low voice, "G-great master, when did you get so many Spirit Stones...? I've seen how little silver you usually charge for consultations, so how could you possibly have the even more precious Spirit Stones...?"

Liao Yunxiao was dumbfounded. He had already been overjoyed to see such treasures being auctioned today.

And now he was being told that this great master he had picked up actually had five hundred million Spirit Stones??

Ye Zichen glanced at Liao Yunxiao but said nothing.

What a joke. Not only did he have more Spirit Stones in his space than he could ever use, he even had more Immortal Stones than he could count. Whatever Cultivation Methods, weapons, or pills one could name, Ye Zichen had them all.

"Who is that young master? Go investigate."

She looked at the exceedingly handsome man sitting in the audience seats, dressed in white robes and untouched by the dust of the mortal world.

Chu Yunxi was deeply puzzled. When had someone this wealthy come to Chu Imperial City?

The people from the other two great powers were equally puzzled and sent people to investigate his identity.

"Five hundred million Spirit Stones! This young master has bid five hundred million Spirit Stones! Any higher bids?"

"Five hundred million Spirit Stones going once!"

"Five hundred million Spirit Stones going twice!"

"Five hundred million Spirit Stones going three times! Sold! Congratulations to this young master!"

The hammer fell, and Ye Zichen ultimately bought the piece of trash he looked down on.

"This concludes the auction. Please leave in an orderly manner!"

The crowd slowly dispersed, but what had happened today would surely reach the various powers.

"Young master, please pay five hundred million Spirit Stones, or treasures of equivalent value."

The auctioneer made the request amiably.

"Will two top-grade Heaven Tier weapons be enough?"

Ye Zichen nodded, then took out two weapons and handed them to the old man.

"Yes! More than enough! What a generous hand, young master!"

The old man was thrilled. He had actually seen another two top-grade Heaven Tier weapons today! The president would reward him handsomely!

Afterward, he left the Star-Picking Tower through the back door.

"Yunxiao, from here, go back to the medicine shop and wait for me. I have something to take care of."

Ye Zichen patted Liao Yunxiao on the head and pointed in the direction of home.

"Oh! Goodbye, great master! Come back soon!"

Liao Yunxiao didn't ask why. He had always obeyed his great master's every word, and soon he slowly vanished from Ye Zichen's sight.

"All right. Since you've been lying in wait, show yourselves. Do not try this seat's patience."

Ye Zichen's smile vanished. At this moment, he had returned to how he had been when he made the Eastern Continent tremble!

(In the Central Continent, the realm after Tribulation Transcendence is called Venerable.)